Re: RFC 99 (v1) Maintain internal time in Modified Julian (not epoch)

[Dan Sugalski]

At 01:48 PM 8/14/00 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > How 'bout 100ns ticks from base date, stored in a 64-bit number? That
>
>We are going to have quads supported on all platforms, then?  With
>software emulation of our own if nothing else is available?  I wouldn't
>object, mind...

I'd like to provide ints of that size, yes. Whether they're native (on, 
say, Alphas or SPARCs), faked by the compiler, or faked by perl is an open 
question, but I would like them in. This might end up in BigInt format 
instead of plain int if the platform integers are too small, but that's OK, 
I think.

                                        Dan

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